Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is expected to leave her job this spring after former president Donald Trump had increasingly grown critical of her leadership, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision came as she visited Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump on Monday, but the situation remained fluid, according to the people, […]Read More

This article was originally published in 2023 and has been updated with new developments. Special counsel Robert K. Hur, a former U.S. attorney in Maryland, will soon release a report critical of President Biden and his aides for mishandling classified documents in Biden’s private home and former office, but prosecutors do not plan to pursue […]Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Tuesday on whether D.C. jurors are unfairly biased against people charged with committing crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s a question with relevance for former president Donald Trump, who plans to try to get his trial moved out of D.C. […]Read More

A panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines plane midflight last month appears to have been installed at a Boeing factory without four bolts needed to keep it attached, according to a report by federal investigators Tuesday. The piece appeared intact when it left the manufacturer that initially put it on — a Boeing subcontractor […]Read More

This is one of those rare occasions when it actually makes sense to begin with a dictionary definition. Webster’s — for 180 years, it has been Merriam-Webster, but who’s counting — defines “insurrection” as “an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.” The Cambridge Dictionary includes additional components: “an organized […]Read More

A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Donald Trump can be put on trial for trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, rejecting Trump’s sweeping claim of presidential immunity as dangerous and unsupported by the Constitution. At public arguments in January, the three judges expressed concern over the most extreme implications […]Read More

A company best known for its posts on Instagram announced on Tuesday that it will try to capitalize on young people’s growing use of social media for news by teaming with a well known TikTok creator for political coverage this year. The company, Betches, said it will partner with the creator Vitus “V” Spehar a.k.a. […]Read More

If the 2008 presidential election made Republicans nervous, the 2012 contest made them panic. Barack Obama had easily defeated Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in his first presidential race, but there were all sorts of ways that victory could be rationalized: President George W. Bush’s unpopularity and the economic crisis. Yes, Obama benefited from an emergent […]Read More

U.S. forces probably did not detect the approach of the Iranian-made drone that killed three American soldiers last week at a remote base in Jordan, and there was no air defense system on site capable of shooting it down, the military’s initial assessment of the attack has found. The early findings, which have not been […]Read More